“I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.”

Canadian novelist and screenwriter

Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter, born on Vancouver Island. He later moved to Portland, Oregon, and became an American citizen. He has 83 quotes on the site. He is known for six novels, beginning with Ablutions in 2009 and continuing with The Sisters Brothers, Undermajordomo Minor, French Exit, The Librarianist, and Dodge City. His work spans fiction for the page and screenwriting, and his published novels have appeared across more than a decade.